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Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • 1997    Ph.D. Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
  • 1990    M.A. Classical Studies, University of Michigan
  • 1988    B.A. Latin, magna cum laude,  Kent State University

Employment

  • 2010-        University of Florida, Gainesville, Professor and Chair
  • 2005-10    University of Florida, Gainesville, Associate Professor with tenure.
  • 2005         University of Wisconsin, Madison, Associate Professor with tenure.
  • 1998-05    University of Wisconsin, Madison, Assistant Professor tenure track.
  • 1997-98    University of Florida, Gainesville, Assistant Professor tenure track.

Post Doctoral Grants and Awards

  • 2014-16     University of Florida Research Foundation Professor
  • 2013          University of Florida Center for the Humanities and Public Sphere Conference Grant, co-organized with Judith Page (English) and Brigitte Aron-Weltman (French), $5,000
  • 2012          University of Florida Faculty Enhancement Opportunity, $17,000
  • 2011          University of Florida Office of Sustainability, Sustainable Solutions Award
  • 2010          University of Florida Sustainability Fellow, $1000
  • 2010          College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teacher of the Year, $2000
  • 2009          University of Florida Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Grant, $8500
  • 2008-09     Waldo W. Neikirk Term Professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, $5000
  • 2006          University of Florida Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Grant, $7000
  • 2005          University of Wisconsin Graduate School Research Grant, 2/9th salary, declined
  • 2004          American Association of University Women Research Grant, $6000
  • 2004          University of Wisconsin Graduate School Research Grant, 1/9th salary, declined
  • 2002-03     Woodrow Wilson National Foundation Career Enhancement Fellowship, $30,000 stipend; $1,500 research stipend
  • 2002          University of Wisconsin Institute for Research in the Humanities, semester leave
  • 2001          University of Wisconsin Graduate School Research Service Grant, 1/9th salary
  • 2001          University of Wisconsin Graduate School Research Grant, 2/9th salary
  • 2000          University of Wisconsin Graduate School Research Grant, 2/9th salary
  • 1999          University of Wisconsin Graduate School Research Grant, 2/9th salary
  • 1998-99     Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship for Minorities, $25,000 stipend; $3,000 travel and relocation allowance; $2,000 cost-of-research ; $2,500 matching funds

Publications

Books

2012. Conspiracy Theory in Latin Literature. Foreword by Mark Fenster. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. Pp. 184. ISBN 978-0-292-73972-7. $55. Paperback edition, 2013.

  • Review: 2014. Ayelet Haimson Lushkov, Classical Review 64: 153-155.

2012. A Companion to Tacitus, editor. Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, Ltd. Pp. 585.ISBN 9781405190329. $199.95.

Reviews:

  • 2012. C. M. C. Green, Choice Reviews Online August 2012.
  • 2013. Salvador Bartera, Classical Review 63: 460-462.
  • 2014. Peter Keegan, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014.02.31.

2009. A Sallust Reader: Selections from Bellum Catilinae, Bellum Jugurthinum, and Historiae. Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc. Pp. 162. ISBN 9780865166875. $19.

  • Review: 2010. Peter Cohee, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.08.24

2006. Rome and the Literature of Gardens. Classical Inter/Faces Series, Paul Cartledge and Susanna Braund, editors. London: Duckworth Press. Pp. 160. ISBN 0715635069. £12.99.

Reviews:

  • 2007. Richard Mawbrey, Historic Gardens Review 18:40.
  • 2007. William Fitzgerald, Times Literary Supplement November 9: 29.
  • 2007. Prudence Jones, Classical Outlook 85.1: 50.
  • 2008. John Henderson, Scholia Reviews ns 17: 2.
  • 2008. Diana Spencer, New England Classical Journal 35.1:71-4.
  • 2008. “A Garden of Verse,” Cynthia Bannon, Classical Review 58.2: 471-2.
  • 2008. Leah Kronenberg, Hermathena 184: 122-25.
  • 2008. André Daviault, Revue des études latines 86: 362-365.
  • 2009. Katharine T. von Stackelberg, Phoenix 63.1-2: 191-193.
  • 2009. P. Osmond, International Journal of the Classical Tradition 16.3-4: 582-3.
  • 2010. Gillian McIntosh, Classical Bulletin 85.1-2: 158-61.

2004. Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History. Austin: University of Texas Press. Pp. 208. ISBN 0292705611. $45. 2009. Available in Paperback, ISBN 9780292722330. $25.

Reviews:

  • 2005. Chronicle of Higher Education Hot Type, February 11.
  • 2005. Simone Bonim, History in Review March 2.
  • 2005. John Allen, On Wisconsin Summer, p. 18.
  • 2005. R. I. Frank, Choice October.
  • 2006. Debra Nousek, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.01.48.
  • 2005. Holly Haynes, American Journal of Philology 126: 630-632.
  • 2004. Phyllis Wachter, “Annual Bibliography of Works about Life Writing, 2003-2004,” Biography 27: 762.
  • 2006. J. B. Rives, Classical Philology 101: 177-181.
  • 2006. Christina S. Kraus, New England Classical Journal 33.2: 152-154.
  • 2006. John Phillips, Southern Humanities Review 40: 290-293.
  • 2006. Mary Jaeger, Hermathena 2006 (180) 133-135.
  • 2007. Barbara Weiden Boyd, Clio 2007 (36) 421-427.
  • 2007. Uwe Walter, Sehepunkte 7.2 [15.02.2007] http://www.sehepunkte.de/2007/02/7962.html
  • 2007. Andrew Hadfield, “History/Historiography,” Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 15: 217-239.
  • “Könyvszemie,” Antik Tanulmányok 51:193-199.

Articles

In press. “Fear in the Agricola,” Les opera minora et le développement de l’historiographie tacitéenne, O. Devillers, ed. Bordeaux: Ausonius.

In press. “Georgics 2.497 and Thebaid 1.19-20: Allusion and Inspiration,” Brill Companion to Statius, William Dominik and Carole Newlands, eds. Leiden: Brill.

2012. “Forestalling Violence in Sallust and Vergil,” Museion 10: 23-44.

2011. “Velleius 2.30.6 and Tacitus, Histories 4.81: Accomplishing Allusion,” in Velleius Paterculus: Making History, E. Cowan and A. Powell, eds. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales: 141-156.

2010. “The Power of the Epistolary Preface from Statius to Pliny,” Classical Quarterly 60.1: 194-201.

2009. “Latin Secondary Education: Costs and Benefits,” Classical World 102.3: 316-22.

2008. “Toward a Model of Conspiracy Theory for Ancient Rome,” in “Dark Powers: Conspiracy and Conspiracy Theory in History and Literature,” Eva Horn, ed. New German Critique 103: 27-49.

2007/08. “Teaching Torture in Seneca Controversiae 2.5,” Classical Journal 103.2: 165-82.

2006. “Shadows and Assassinations: Forms of Time in Tacitus and Appian,” Arethusa 39.2: 193-218.

2005. “Magno Itinere: Caesar in the Fifth Semester,” Classical Outlook 82: 133-137.

2005. “The Pannonian Revolt in the Annals of Tacitus,” Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History XII: 414-422.

2004. “Speaking Before Superiors: Orpheus in Vergil and Ovid,” in Free Speech in Classical Antiquity, I. Sluiter and R. Rosen, eds. Leiden: Brill: 369-389. Review: Bertelli, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.01.12 (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2006/2006-01-12.html).

2002. “Actium and Teutoburg: Augustan Victory and Defeat in Vergil and Tacitus,” in Clio and the Poets: Augustan Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient Historiography, D. Levene and D. P. Nelis, eds. Leiden: Brill: 45-59.

2000. “The Mourning After: Statius Thebaid 12,” American Journal of Philology 121: 423-452.

2000. “Distant Voices of Freedom in the Annales of Tacitus,” Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History X: 358-369.

1999. “Beyond Teutoburg: Transgression and Transformation in Tacitus, Annales 1.61-62,” Classical Philology 94: 302-320.

1991. “Explanations of Callimachean aitia,” with L. Koenen and W. Luppe, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 88: 157-164. Corrigendum: ZPE 91 (1992) 60.

Reviews

2012. with ANDREW WOLPERT. J. Marincola, ed., Greek and Roman Historiography (Oxford 2011). New England Classical Journal: 39: 221-225.

2011. L. Kronenberg, Allegories of Farming from Greece and Rome: Philosophical Satire in Xenophon, Varro, and Virgil (Cambridge 2009). Classical Journal Online 2011.09.01: 1-3.

2008 [2010]. R. Rosen and I. Sluiter, City, Countryside and the Spatial Organization of Value in Classical Antiquity (Leiden 2006). Ancient History Bulletin 22: 173-175.

2010. D. Sailor, Writing and Empire in Tacitus (Cambridge 2008). New England Classical Journal 37.2: 145-147.

2007. N. Shumate, Nation, Empire, Decline: Studies in Rhetorical Continuity from the Romans to the Modern Era (London 2006). New England Classical Journal 34.3: 273-275.

2007. with ANDREW WOLPERT. J. Roisman, The Rhetoric of Conspiracy in Ancient Athens (Berkeley 2006). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.03.14 (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2007/2007-03-14.html).

2006. P. Bowe, Gardens of the Roman World (Los Angeles 2004). Classical Outlook 83.2: 89.

2005. H. Haynes, The History of Make Believe: Tacitus on Imperial Rome (Berkeley 2003). Hermathena 179: 224-226.

2004. E. Gunderson, Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity: Authority and the Rhetorical Self (Cambridge 2003). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.02.29 (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2004/2004-02-29.html).

2004. C. Damon, Tacitus Histories I (Cambridge 2003). Classical Review 54: 111-112.

2002. D. Hurley, Suetonius Divus Claudius (Cambridge 2001). Journal of Roman Studies 92: 252-53.

2001. R. Ash, Ordering Anarchy: Armies and Leaders in Tacitus’ Histories (Ann Arbor 1999) and E. O’Gorman, Irony and Misreading in the Annals of Tacitus (Cambridge 2000). Journal of Roman Studies 91: 252-53.

Under Contract

Encyclopedia of Tacitus, editor. Oxford and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Ltd. 500,000-700,000 word manuscript, two volumes, 100 contributors. Contract issued January 8, 2011.

Tacitus. Exeter: I. B. Tauris Publishing, Ltd. “Understanding Classics” Series. 60,000 word manuscript. Contract issued September 30, 2011.

“Horticulture and the Shaping of Roman Nature,” Oxford Handbooks Online in Classical Studies, Gareth Williams, ed. Oxford University Press. Contract issued October 13, 2013.

Disciples of Flora: Gardens in History and Culture, co-editor with Judith Page and Brigitte Weltman-Aron. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press. 80,000-100,000 word manuscript, 10 contributors. Contract issued January 30, 2014.

International Conferences and Invited Lectures (2011–Present)

2014 “The Obituary of Augustus in Tacitus,” Fourth Annual Benario Lecturer, Emory University, October 28.

2014 “The Obituary of Augustus in Tacitus,” International Conference XIV A.D. SAECULUM AUGUSTUM, Lisbon, September 24-26.

2013 “Georgics 2.497 and Thebaid 1.19-20: Allusion and Inspiration,” Statius International Conference, Santiago de Compostela, June 21-22.

2013 “Suspicion as a Condition of Tyranny,” The College of New Jersey, April 2.

2013 “The Afterlife of Little Sparta,” Disciples of Flora Conference, University of Florida, February 22-23.

2013 “Fear in the Agricola,” Murphy Foundation, Hendrix College, February 12.

2012 “Conspiracy Theory in Latin Literature,” Furman University, November 28.

2012 “Fear in the Agricola,” Celtic Classical Conference, Bordeaux, September 5-8.

2011 “Suspicion in Suetonius,” Washington University in St Louis, February 4.

Doctoral Thesis Director

2013         David WHITE, “A Commentary on Columella Book 10”
Lecturer, Department of Classics, Baylor University

2013         Brian SEBASTIAN, “Apostrophes to the Gods in Latin Epic”
Latin and Greek Teacher at the Seven Hills School, Cincinnati, OH

2013         Shawn DANIELS, “Satire in the Historia Augusta”

2013         Megan DALY, “Germanicus and the Dead in Tacitus’ Annals”
Adjunct Lecturer, University of North Florida

2012         Brenda FIELDS, “Fear Mongering in Late Republican Rome, 88-28 BCE”
Teacher of Latin and Ancient History, Windermere Preparatory School, Orlando

2011         Dustin HEINEN, “Dominating Nature in Statius’ Silvae and Vergil’s Georgics”
Teaching Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University

2008         TRUDY HARRINGTON BECKER, “Form, Intent, and the Fragmentary Roman Historians 240-63 B.C.E”
Senior Lecturer and Associate Chair, Department of History, Virginia Tech

Service at the University of Florida

Department of Classics

  • 2010-2015    Chair
  • 2005-2010    Eta Sigma Phi Faculty Advisor
  • 2006-2010    Supervisor of Graduate Teaching Assistants
  • 2005-2008    Curriculum Committee, Chair
  • 2005-2008    Tenure Mentor
  • 2006-2007    Department By-Laws Committee, Chair
  • 2008, 2006    Rothman Lecture Coordinator
  • Spring 2006    Undergraduate Advisor
  • 1997-1998     Supervisor of Latin Teaching Assistants

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

  • 2014-2015          Tenure and Promotion Committee
  • 2012-2015          Finance Committee, Chair (2013-2014)
  • 2011-2014          Search Committees for Chairs of Departments of English, Linguistics; Associate Dean for Natural Sciences; CLAS Communications Director
  • 2010-2011          CLAS Teacher and Advisor of the Year Committee
  • 2006-2008          CLAS Faculty Travel Committee
  • 2006, 09, 10       CLAS Humanities Enhancement Grant Committee

University

  • 2009-2013          General Education Humanities Course, Task Force and Steering Committee
  • 2010-2011          Prairie Project for Graduate Fellows Committee
  • 2010-2015          Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, Executive Board and Advisory Committee
  • 2007-2010          University Constitution Committee
  • 2006-2007          University Committee on Two and Four Year Scholars
  • Fall 2006            Commencement Marshall

Professional

  • American Philological Association, Life Member
  • Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Life Member
  • Manuscript Referee

Presses

  • Oxford University, Routledge, University of Michigan, University of Texas, University of Wisconsin, University of Oklahoma

Journals

  • American Journal of Philology
  • Classical Antiquity
  • Classical Journal 
  • Classical Outlook
  • Classical Philology
  • Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History
  • Phoenix
  • Transactions of the American Philological Association
  • Classical World
  • Greece & Rome
  • Syllecta Classica